Next, you should commence a solid program of weight training if you have not already done so, because it is by weight training that you stimulate your muscles to grow, and it is the growth of your muscles that channels most of the additional energy that you are taking in every day in that direction (as opposed to building fat stores).
However, it is inevitable that while you are trying to channel most of the surplus energy in the direction of building additional muscle mass, a certain percentage of it will accumulate as body fat.
The final phase of your body building efforts once the muscle mass is increasing is to encourage your body to do exactly what it doesn’t want to do, which is to become catabolic and anabolic at the same time.
While this is not going to happen overnight, after some weeks or months of weight training and eating to build muscle mass, you should see that your physique and basic shape has already changed significantly. In short, you will have added muscle mass, but you will also have added some extra fat.
However, this is not the same as some overweight or obese individual who could serve as a poster boy (or girl) for couch potatoes everywhere! In other words, while you will have put on a little more fat,
you will still nevertheless be possessed of far more muscle mass than you were previously, so your need to lose weight is entirely different from that of the average obese person.
Nevertheless, if you want to shed the final few pounds of fat so that you achieve the classic bodybuilder physique, you do need to convince your body to do what it does not want to do.
This is a strategy that all professional or high-level competition bodybuilders have to go through on a regular basis, a process that is known as ‘cutting’, the removal of the final few pounds of excess fat that allows the muscle mass to shine through.
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